Greetings from my end, I know many have been waiting for feedback on how today went at Oyinbo modern market.
Two days ago I took a bold step of taking spendhbd transaction to a bigger market, tho I don't really know how it would turn out but I want to try everything possible to reach as many as possible with this project.
Oyinbo is a very big market, coordinating shoppers might not be easy especially if the business owner is not interested that's why I decided to take it gradually and see how it goes.
I left home by 8:45am and got to the market by 9:15am, everywhere was bubbling and I got scared because I didn't know how to get people's attention to listen to what I have to say, thank God I already secured a space that Monday with the woman that sales crayfish and the snail seller so I walked directly to her location.
Getting there everywhere is bustling with many customers and immediately she saw me she told them I have something that will benefit them.
So they all gave attention while I make a presentation on what spendhbd is all about, after all explanations, I showed them distriator app, how it works, how to claim discount of they get onboarded , I also talked about different frontends and I showed them how hive keychain works, @mercyeva was just paying attention to everything I was saying and after my presentation she asked some questions like.
What is the motive or purpose of this project?
What if I want the discount in Naira?
Are there other businesses I can shop and get discount or ist just fish and crayfish?
I gave her convincing answer and she was like how much will they give me now? I said lets give it a trail, so I listed the business and onboarded her through spendhbd onboarding link, I helped her download hive keychain, I provided hbd for her transaction and she used hbd to pay for the crayfish she bought, she was like wow this is great, please can you come to my street and list the businesses there? We exchanged contacts and I promised to visit her location.
The other women were still contemplating about it, some didn't come to the market with their smart phones, while some who are not exposed don't really believe its a real project, infact one of them tried so hard to discourage @mercyeva, telling her this might be scam, but she told her that she wants to try it out and she did.
Two of them asked if I could come on Friday that they would want to sleep over it, I accepted and will try to return on Friday to see if I can get them onboarded
@mercyeva said she will want to learn how to withdraw and other things, we booked for a mentorship section on Friday morning.
Next move
For now there is need for me to frequent that market and the business I listed to see if I can onboard more customers to shop with hbd from the business, then gradually I will see if I can have other businesses listed in same market but the focus now is on crayfish and dry fish business.
As promised, I will go back on Friday to see how far I can go, hopefully I will see more new people I can introduce the project too.
The best thing to do is to try new things and see how it goes then build from it, this stable project needs the best attention and adoption ever because its a life changer.
Thanks for reading.
Images are original, screenshot from spendhbd community